In statements issued yesterday, Hamas warned that the more Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sticks with applying military pressure to Hamas as a strategy for freeing the remaining hostages in Gaza, the more hostages will return to Israel as dead bodies. “Netanyahu’s insistence on liberating the prisoners through military pressure instead of concluding a deal will mean that they will return to their families inside coffins and their families will have to choose whether they are dead or alive,” said Hamas military spokesman Abu Ubaida, a nom de guerre.
And in case the message is still not clear to some, Hamas reduced it to a meme: “Exchange Deal … Freedom & Life. Military Pressure … Death & Failure.”